Mister_Snuggles

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by Mister_Snuggles 5mo ago
I remember calling MS support, vaguely related to this project. For example, if the Edmonton office needed to send a welcome letter to a new client, the flow might look like this: 1. Create a new file based on X:\Templates\EdmontonLetterhea
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by Mister_Snuggles 5mo ago
It was amazingly easy to interact with other apps via OLE Automation (aka, COM Automation). About 25 years ago I wrote a program that would look for requests (in the form of XML files) from the custom software on our Solaris system, then ba
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by Mister_Snuggles 7mo ago
I'm surprised that Canada doesn't seem to be talking about doing this. We've already got a strong payment processing brand with Interac, it's used daily for millions of debit transactions, and supports all the features y
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by Mister_Snuggles 8mo ago
Running two Lenovo ThinkVision displays off of my work MacBook Pro. On the MBP built-in display, the upper-left and upper-right corners are rounded. I believe this is due to the shape of the display. The bottom corners are not rounded. On
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by Mister_Snuggles 10mo ago
> - If you are thinking of ZFS/TrueNAS because of the scrubbing functionality, RAID1 + BTRFS also have scrubbing. In my experience, BTRFS is to be avoided. It's the only FS that I've lost data to.
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by Mister_Snuggles 1y ago
Honestly, the big thing that the Pi has is the support and mindshare. Compared to many equivalents (e.g., the Banana Pi) you'll find much better documentation and have a much more polished experience with a Raspberry Pi. The only ques
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by Mister_Snuggles 1y ago
Worked issued me a Windows Mobile based Palm Treo (probably a 700wx), but I'm honestly not sure. It was decidedly not great, but mostly did the job. It was eventually replaced by a Blackberry of some kind which worked a lot better.
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by Mister_Snuggles 1y ago
I had a number of PalmPilots over the years, I loved those little devices! I also remember using a keyboard dock with one of them to take notes during meetings. I'm pretty sure I had a PalmPilot Professional, a Palm V, and a Tungsten
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by Mister_Snuggles 1y ago
What DNS features are you missing? Is this a weird UXG limitation? I have a UCG-Ultra and was able to set up DNS just the way I wanted. My needs aren't extreme, but I was able to set up a wildcard entry (*.apps.domain -> 192.168.x
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by Mister_Snuggles 1y ago
Rather than regulating features, I'd start with a dependency list. So a smart plug might have a list saying: - Functionality requires 2.4GHz WiFi, Internet access, access to whatever.vendor.com, and a vendor.com account. - Provisioning
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by Mister_Snuggles 1y ago
How does this prevent a random application from making an HTTPS request to a random hard-coded IP address? Similarly, how does this prevent an application from making an HTTPS request to a generic host (e.g., api.example.com)? This is what
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by Mister_Snuggles 1y ago
To play devil's advocate, shoving everything into HTTP/HTTPS also allowed a ton of innovation. Would video streaming sites (Youtube, Vimeo, etc) ever have gotten off the ground if they had to go to IANA to get a port number assign
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by Mister_Snuggles 1y ago
I can see a future where Chrome will use the system resolver for everything except Google's advertising domains, and those name resolutions will be impossible to block because they're going to a Google IP that may also serve servi
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by Mister_Snuggles 1y ago
Usually. Some middleboxes inspect the TLS session setup (e.g., SNI sniffing) and in some corporate environments they even decrypt the traffic (this relies on the endpoints having a root certificate installed that allows this functionality,
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by Mister_Snuggles 1y ago
There's no reason you couldn't, and this would actually be fine in my view. The problem is that with DoH the applications themselves have their own resolver built in that doesn't respect the system defaults.
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by Mister_Snuggles 1y ago
The thing that bothers me most about DoH is that it moves the responsibility for name resolution from the operating system to each application. So now you don't have the ability to set up your own DNS server system-wide, you need to d
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by Mister_Snuggles 1y ago
I see the carbon tax as a 'stick' (to penalize undesired behaviour, in this case emitting carbon), but it needs to be coupled with a 'carrot' to encourage the desired behaviours. I'd like to see a carbon tax coupled
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by Mister_Snuggles 1y ago
Do people not look at the operating costs before buying a vehicle? Do they really just negotiate a monthly payment and get surprised at the amount they have to pay for fuel/maintenance/insurance? When I bought my most recent car
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by Mister_Snuggles 1y ago
The section on the author's background could have almost been written by me. I'm also a PeopleSoft developer, and the ability to build fully-functional CRUD apps without needing to know about HTML, JavaScript, Browsers, etc, is s
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by Mister_Snuggles 1y ago
There's a $100 one for making desktop apps with SQLite support, which doesn't interest me. $399 gets you to the Web tier with PostgreSQL support, which is the feature set I'm most interested in. I'm still tempted...
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by Mister_Snuggles 1y ago
Wow, a quick cruise through the documentation suggests that this is EXACTLY the kind of thing I'm looking for! I find myself waffling between "This is too expensive for me to play around with at home" and "Considering wh
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by Mister_Snuggles 1y ago
Is https://delphi.fandom.com/wiki/Delphi_for_PHP the one you're thinking of? This is truly interesting, and the description on that wiki page suggests that it might be exactly what I'm looking for, but it see
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by Mister_Snuggles 1y ago
I would love something like Delphi/VB6, but made for web development. My day job involves working with PeopleTools, which basically does this. Draw forms (and build all of the supporting objects), save them, and they're accessibl
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by Mister_Snuggles 2y ago
I've only bought two toasters in my life. The first was a two-slice Kenmore (RIP Sears) which still works. It cost $20 and was purchased close to 25 years ago. I only used this a couple times a week and now the usage is very sporadic
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by Mister_Snuggles 2y ago
From my predictions: > Your deep dive into embedded systems will lead you to create a heated keyboard powered by the same batteries as your Milwaukee heated jacket. While I don't have a Milwaukee heated jacket (I have no idea why it
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by Mister_Snuggles 2y ago
> The solution I've come up with but haven't yet put into action is to use an ESP device, with some sort of contact switch which sits _in_ the hole where the lock goes and detects whether the lock (bolt?) is physically present.
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by Mister_Snuggles 2y ago
> - Missing feature; do not connect when on certain SSIDs. I'm very surprised by this omission as this feature exists on the official iOS client.
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by Mister_Snuggles 2y ago
I've taken this approach as well. The WireGuard clients can be configured to make this basically transparent based on what SSID I'm connected to. I used to do similar with IPSec/IKEv2, but WireGuard is so much easier to man
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by Mister_Snuggles 2y ago
I have a Prime G2 and the RPN mode is just bad. It feels like it was an afterthought, and some things just don't seem to work properly in that mode. My 48G+ is a much, much better RPN calculator. The Prime G2 is also missing the equat
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by Mister_Snuggles 2y ago
I never used an Atari computer, nor did I know anyone who did, but I always wonder what the world would be like if Windows and macOS didn't "win". If Atari and Amiga had won instead, what would the world look like? What would

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